Comments on: A Gentlemen’s Guide To Dining Etiquette

By: David Ross

David Ross — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:48:54 +0000

Irene-you are so, so right! Slob is not now, nor has it ever been, the new “Chic.”

I shall count both John and Irene in my party the next time I’m in town. We’ll go to one of the “better” restaurants and we’ll show “them” what “class” is all about when it comes to restaurant “etiquette” and the dress one should wear when dining out. Thankfully there are still Gentlemen and Ladies who agree with my old-fashioned ethics.

By: John Curtas

John Curtas — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:14:40 +0000

Thanks Irene….I couldn’t agree more!

By: Irene King

Irene King — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:11:21 +0000

I, for one, have never been able to figure out the logic of spending a lot of money for an elaborate tattoo that you can never see because it’s placed over your buttcrack. There’s a rationale there that I’m missing.

Silly me. When I go into a nice restaurant (over $$$ in Las Vegas Weekly), I have a need to dress up. Of course, “dress up” has a completely different meaning now than it did, say, 30 years ago, but I can accept that. While I’m there with my companion, either a nice skirt and blouse or in sleek trousers and a fashionable top, I look around at the sloppy shirts, torn jeans (fashionably torn, of course), flip-flops, baseball caps, and wonder what in the world ever happened to class?

Is slob the new chic?

By: John Curtas

John Curtas — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:11:27 +0000

Thanks for comment David…..As one ped-o-phobic guy to another, I’m consistently appalled by the footwear some people have no trouble wearing in public. The beach (and trudging up and down the Vegas Strip) is one thing, but in a restaurant, most open-toed shoes (and the feet that lie within) are enough to make me lose my appetite.

And to be completely objectifying and sexist about it; there is a certain age at which young women and girls look cute and sexy in bare legs and sandals, and the rest of them simply don’t. And I can’t tell you exactly where that cut-off is, but it’s far south of 30.

By: David Ross

David Ross — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:33:25 +0000

John-as a fellow alumni of our “Manners Still Matter” club, thank you for pointing out some incredibly important rules of etiquette when it comes to the principals that one should follow when dining out.

I especially liked your reference to those “Appetizingly demure tramp stamps,” which I assume is directed at those silly little un-artistic, whorish stamps of dragons and insects found on women’s bare chests, bare shoulders and bare ankles.

Well-“tramp” pretty much sums it up, and along with the tramp moniker you should add another point on your list of what a lady should always do when dining at a decent restaurant:

-Wear hose. America no longer has the appetite for looking at the bare legs of women who obviously show the bumps and grinds of a day trodding up and down the Strip . You paid $2,500 for that slinky little Armani cocktail dress and you shelled out another $300 for those Prada spikes. (And please, wash between your toes before you force your feet into those too-small high-heels). Now spend the same amount of money on a good pair of nylons and present yourself as the well-coiffed woman you are.

Signed-your old fuddy-duddy, out of touch friend, who longs for the day when men were proper “gentlemen” and women were proper “ladies.”